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Posted without a caption on Dec. 14, 2015, the post is a meme with a portrait of President George Washington with a quote about the right to bear arms in text overlay.
John Adams wrote the "right to keep and to bear arms" into the Massachusetts Constitution a decade before it appeared in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The Founders, some with particular vehemence, saw the right to bear arms as absolutely essential to the preservation of liberty, which is why it ended up not only in the Constitution, but in most ...
Only Mexico, Guatemala, and the US have a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. The US is the only country without any constitutional limits.
A search of Brigham Young University’s new online Corpus of Founding Era American English, with more than 95,000 texts and 138 million words, yields 281 instances of the phrase “bear arms ...
The Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would consider whether the Constitution gives individuals the right to bear arms. Dahlia Lithwick explained the arguments on both sides of this question ...
(Neal Goldfarb, a lawyer, has made the “bear arms” data available on Language Log, a blog.) Originalists like Scalia can find out what words really meant in the 18th century.
The law today is not what it was when Joe Biden came of age. Today, the right to keep and bear arms is recognized unambiguously as a personal, fundamental, pre-political, natural right.
The very last item on Iowa ballots next Tuesday will be Amendment 1, or the "Right to Keep and Bear Arms" Amendment. Skip to content. Hometown Hero. Quad Cities Live. Real Conversations.